Presentation monograph on CCS

At the Energy Delta Convention 2009, the Groningen Centre of Energy Law (GCEL) has presented a new book on Carbon Capture and Storage, titled "Legal Design of Carbon Capture and Storage: Developments in the Netherlands from an International and EU Perspective".

Description

Since the 1990s several attempts have been made to combat climate change. Governments use traditional instruments like the promotion of renewable energy sources and energy efficiency. Since the entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol new instruments have been introduced like international and national emissions trading.

So far these existing abatement options are not sufficient to meet the national CO2 reduction targets. Until it is possible to use renewable resources on a larger scale without endangering security of supply, transitional instruments need to be designed. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is such a transitional instrument that allows for the use of fossil fuels without emitting CO2 in the atmosphere. The CO2 will be captured and transported to subsoil reservoirs where it is permanently stored. Because of its geological structure the Netherlands is considered to be suitable for large-scale CO2 storage.

The Groningen Centre of Energy Law (GCEL) has analysed the legal instruments necessary to regulate CCS. This book presents a legal design of carbon capture and storage. Thirteen different chapters give an insight in the international, EU and national framework for CCS. They analyse the regime for geological storage and transportation pipelines, the financial incentives to promote CCS and the applicable liability regime.

In his foreword to the book, EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs writes: "Legal Design of Carbon Capture and Storage is a comprehensive, scientific analysis of the recently adopted legal framework for CCS, including Directive 2009/31/EC on the geological storage of carbon dioxide. The case study on The Netherlands provides an interesting discussion of the legal issues that can be encountered when implementing the Directive into national law. I would like to congratulate the editors and authors for preparing this very useful publication."

The authors are: Anatole Boute, Jan Bouwman, Marcel Brus, Irene Burgers, Oscar Couwenberg, Kars de Graaf, Wilbert Grevers, Avelien Haan, Jan Jans, Lennart Luten, Dick Lubach, Ko de Ridder, Martha Roggenkamp, Hans Vedder, Mark Wissink and Edwin Woerdman.

The book will be available via the Intersentia website.